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Online Business
Affiliate Marketing
A way of earning commission by promoting other people's products — you share a link, someone buys through it, and you get a cut of the sale.
Affiliate marketing works through a simple three-way relationship: a merchant (the brand selling the product), an affiliate (you — the promoter), and a customer who buys through your unique tracking link or promo code. When the sale happens, the merchant's system records it was your referral and credits you the agreed commission automatically.
The magic of affiliate marketing is that it scales without proportional effort. A blog post or YouTube video you made two years ago can still be generating commissions today — every time a new visitor finds it and clicks your link. The best affiliates treat it like building tiny passive income machines: research the right products, create genuinely helpful content around them, rank it on Google or YouTube, and let it run. The downside? You're fully dependent on someone else's product quality, commission structure, and the ongoing existence of their affiliate program.